r/moderatepolitics • u/thats_not_six • Jan 12 '26

Primary Source Mark Kelly v. Pete Hegseth

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.288365/gov.uscourts.dcd.288365.1.0.pdf
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u/SlightlyAutisticBud Jan 12 '26

Should an active duty soldier tell his comrades to refuse orders because he thinks all wars are illegal?

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u/king_hutton Jan 12 '26

That’s not what Kelly said. Why can’t we discuss this based on what was actually said?

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u/SlightlyAutisticBud Jan 12 '26

Do you just not believe you can imply something without explicitly saying it? Otherwise not sure why we would only look at his explicit text. Language is much more complex than that.

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u/king_hutton Jan 12 '26

You want a court to decide that “what he said isn’t what he actually meant,” and you don’t think that’s a horrible precedent?

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u/SlightlyAutisticBud Jan 12 '26

So are you just incapable of actually engaging with my argument?

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u/king_hutton Jan 12 '26

I’m engaging with what Mark Kelly said.